 In late May 1987, "Townsville" was deployed to Fiji as part of Operation Morris Dance, as relief for one of the patrol boats sent following the initial coup d'état earlier that month.The Australian government decided on 29 May that the situation had stabilised, with "Townsville" sailing for home that day.On 1 June 1990, the patrol boat intercepted a vessel carrying Cambodian refugees off Bathurst Island.